Okay. Now as you can see here Ray has made a cast and he managed to catch the branch. The line is pretty snug, it's wrapped around, did a little flip around the tip of this branch here. Now, instead of jerking this plug while its hanging right here, what that will do is it'll cause a bit spring reaction and the lure will get potentially get hooked up in the thicker branches that we can't really break off.
It's got braided line on here which is about, I think it's about 45 pound test braided line. So we could break this twig off, we can't break a big branch off. So what we're going to do is reel up as far as we can reach and we got lucky. The spring it around took it off the tree. But what you'd normally do is you'd reel it up right where that lure is hooked right on to the tip of that branch.
To make sure the Lure is not going to flip off the branch first before you try to yank it out of there, you still got a chance that will hop off like what just happened or reel it up to were the lure gets stuck, right on the tip. Than instead of using your rod to yank it up, wrap your hand around the line and use the pressure of the line, right on the tip of that branch. Then look which way the branch is bending, you can break it off, certain way is easier than other. And you bend it back to get it the snap off. Don't jerk it out when your lure is hanging, reel it up to where it get stuck then pull.
Bring it down, bring it down, really the tip down and make the pressure the opposite way of him. Okay, now we're in the case of another snag, a submerged snag, the snag that we can't see. Could be a log, could be a bucket, could be a rock, who knows. Now we've got a make that decision.
First of all, we never want to put the pressure on our rod, why? A lure is a lot cheaper than fixing your rod. So don't go yanking on the rod real hard. You could try a smooth little release by using the rod but not putting much pressure. And try to circle the whole angle of where your snag. Very little pressure and you could feel if your snag down is going to move.
If It's a big rock, the rock won't budge, you won't feel your lure budge it off. So, it did move a very little bit. So we're going to give a some slack line here. We're going to set the rod down after grabbing the line, and we know we're reeling this direction when it got snagged. So pulling this direction is not going to improve the circumstances. Pulling diagonal could help or pulling back the opposite direction. Since we're reeling this way, we can't pull backward otherwise, I'll be in the water. So we're going to have to try a diagonal. I'll wrap the line around my hand little sideways, give it a nice a solid pull. Voila! It was twig and we yanked this right off there and we got it back.
Now instead of dropping your lure back in the water, this one floats, so it would be okay. Let's sit it here and toss your line back in the water so no one trips over. Pick your rod up, keep your lure next to yourself so your buddies won't tripped on. You don't want to get them snag of their way, and really straight up next to your body and you're losing, your ready to go again.
And that's getting out snags, and recovering your lure the right way with Nick, The Informative Fisherman.
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